The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-20
THE GLASS WORKS.
The Years Growth of the In
FAINT Industry.
THE WARES NOW TURNED OUT.
ments Made and Contem-
pIated-Other Notes.

Just abouta year ago, the first FIRE
was started up in the glass1o:ks 10 the
northwest of the city, couple OF blocks
west of the Warm Springs bath houses.
The plant was limited, as the capital IN
vested was then small. An insight
icant showing was made by the erec-
ton of building only sufficiently large
ito get along with" and six blowers
were employed. The capacity then vas
about 200 dozen beer bottles day,
but appearances indicated from the
start that that supply would not equal
the demand, and at the putting out of
the first IRE, =" about the end of June,
it was determined to enlarge the plant
and increase the output.
In accordance with this determine
ton the company controlling the works
put III additional furnace room and fire.
| places, engaged more blowers and in
creased The variety of the wares. Now
there are te4 blowers, with helper TO
each two. and these. with the anuealing
and carrying boys, shippers and e1-
aminers. ETC., make the force employed
a5oUt sixty.
Additions TO the capacity OF the works
have been made at various times since,
until now there is on the east side
large adobe building, 60x30, in which the
company makes its own melting pots,
from an imported, cement-hke com
p osition, called pot clay. A store room,
in which bottles, TASKS and Jars are
stacked ready for shipp :, adioias the
one first mentioned, and here. at the
present time, about 500 dozen beer
bottles are packed and shipped TO the
breweries of the city every day. On
the northwest of the furnace house, u
mixing room has been erected, 50x30,
in which the batch" composed of
sand, lime, soda and salt, is made ready
for the melting pots. These ingredients
form the natural-colored glass, which
is very pale green. To change this TO
amber ground anthracite is adde~. and
pure white is produced By the mixing
in of arsenic and saltpetre. The sand
used is obtained from quarry in the
hills to the northeast, and over Pascoe's
ime kilns.
The annealiHg ovens were more than
doubled last fall, at the time when glass
blowers all over the land lay
off-July and August-so that
now there are nine, three of
which are in use every day. that is,
three are filled Monday, three Tuesday
and three Wednesday, and the contents
of Mondays ovens are left a couple of
days to be thoroughly tempered, when
they are emptied and flied Thursday;
Tuesdays on Friday, and so on. These
ovens are about 12x13 feet each.
The variety of articles manufactured
now has grown from plain beer bottles
TO include fruit jars, TASKS, apothecary
wares and soda water bottles, all OF DIFF
ferent sizes and some with the brands of
the users in raised letters. One lot,
Grated ready for shipping, was com
posed of small phials. with the legend;
&c. E. Johnson, Mfr, V. T. R., Salt
Lake City, Utah." displayed on each
one. Another lot (soda water bottles(
bore the brand of "Thos. Emmett. Og-
den, Utah" The fruit jars have the
MASON Patent on their face.
On the grounds, in large stacks, Re
various kinds and fruit jars, which are
ready tor shipment.
To visitors, Mr.. James Gillespie, who
acts in the absence of Mr.. Hugh Wat
son, the manager, is attentive, and
takes an interest and ! ride in showing
the capacities of the works and explain
ing the mOdas Operdndi. The activity of
the youngsters who carry the wares
from the blowers to the anneaiing ovens
is remarkable, and the precision and
Systematic manner in which everything
connected with the several departments
are noteworthy. In the centre of the
main building, which is 60x50, is located
the furnace, in which are four pots
with eight ringholes to each, atfording
ample working space for sixteen blow
ers. This, it is now understood. will be
enlarged after the present fire, by
building six-pot furnace, thus giving
place for twenty-four blowers.
To watch the processes through
which bottle or jar passes before it is
ready for the market is interesting, and
should be seen to be completely under
stood. When bottle is first blown,
there is no fiat ring around the mouth,
but it is put on before being sent to the
aunealing oven. Not so with the little
blower and sent to what is called the
glory hole" for the addition of the
ring on the neck, and this part OF the
business is cleverly manipulated by
young men and boys. Before the fruit
Jars are finished; they undergo several
transformations, the last of which is
filing off the rough edges around the
mouth until they are perfectly smooth
and ready for the rubber ring which
renders them air tight. Fruit jar ship
ping viii begin right away, when the
vast stacks now being turned out will
grow beautifully less.
1t is a pleasure to note progress IN
any of the industries or branches OF
business by which the community, or
any part of it, is benefited. and the one
under consideration mas made such de-
cide1 and marked strides, that TO
chronicle the fact is especially SO. The
glass works are an established fact, and
with the improvement in the quality OF
their wares. and the turning out OF
white, clear glass, viii come. popu
lariLv and fanls U he b will be lasting